Mandatory disclosure of energy sources and pollutants
on utility bills. Consumers cannot make informed choices if they don't have
this knowledge. (The New Mexico legislature has mandated that disclosure be a
part of any deregulation order issued by the PRC - whether CO2, mercury, and
environmental impacts will be reported as well are issues currently up in
the air).

Fair Net-Metering provisions: Consumers should be
allowed to compete on an equal basis with utilities. New Mexico has a
net-metering law, but net-metering is limited to 10kW.

A mandate that renewables be a part of New Mexico's
energy portfolio. There is no mandate at present for renewables in New
Mexico's portfolio.

Municipalities might do well to consider forming their
own publicly owned utilities, a good example being the Sacramento Municipal
Utility District. This allows municipalities to better control how and where
their power is generated.

Granting of carbon credits to
those who install clean energy systems. Carbon credits are tradeable
credits for reducing carbon emissions or removing carbon from the
atmosphere. Such credits could generate a substantial incentive for
renewables. Presently utilities, working at the Federal level, are
attempting to gain the credits generated by customers who install clean
energy systems, or in other words, steal the credit from those who deserve
it.

Freedom from stranded costs. The public should
not automatically have to pay for stranded costs associated with bad investments by
utilities, such as cost overruns associated with nuclear plants, especially
if these costs are not determined by actual market value (which is only
determined if the utility divests the associated asset). If the
utility were a consumer owned entity (such as municipal utility), then the utility should
probably be liable, but
such is not the case for investor owned utilities. Such utilities should be
treated like any other corporation. While stranded costs have generally been associated with
old investments such as nuclear power plants, New Mexican's may become
subject to new stranded costs if renewable energy or distributed
cogeneration becomes more widespread, because coal-fired plants will then
gradually become obsolete. Thus, early protection from stranded costs is
essential to the growth of renewables.